Son reveals his mother’s ordeal at Portiuncula Hospital to highlight healthcare crisis, need for action

A mother planning to deliver naturally following a C-section 14 months previously, lost her baby two days after birth.

An elderly taxi driver, who was stabbed up to 30 times and robbed, may never work again.

Ireland's oldest man has passed away in his 108th year.

Kian Anthony Bourke, who weighed in at 3.31kg, became the first baby arrival in Ireland for 2015, popping into the world just four seconds after midnight.

Rats, mice, ants, fleas, and silverfish were among the infestations found in hospitals during the past five years, as the HSE spent more than €800,000 on pest-control services.

A garda forensic team in Galway are to carry out an examination of the scene of a fatal two-car crash.

Christmas in Ballinasloe, Co Galway has been overshadowed after a father from the town died and his son was injured in a crash yesterday.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses following a fatal collision in Loughrea, Co Galway today.

A 51-year-old man has died in a crash in Co Galway.

There is anger in a Co Roscommon parish today after the ransacking of the home of a pensioner who died in a crash just hours earlier.

Gardaí are appealing for witnesses after an elderly woman died in a crash in Co Roscommon.

A woman in her fifties has died in a crash in Co. Galway.

GARDAÍ are continuing to warn motorists of perilous driving conditions following the death of a woman in Wexford after the minibus she was travelling in overturned on an icy patch.

A 37-year-old man has been killed after his motorcycle and a jeep were in collision in Co Galway.

A 66-year-old man has died in a farming accident in Galway.

The N6 at Kilrickil in Galway reopened this afternoon following yesterday's crash which claimed the lives of two teenage girls and injured several others.

TWO workers at Limerick’s Dell computer plant were killed in a horrific road accident, which claimed four lives at the weekend.

A post mortem examination will be carried out today on a teenage boy who died at school.

A TEENAGER was brought before a special sitting of Roscommon District Court last night and charged in connection with the death of a man in a small Roscommon village.

One man was killed in a car accident in Ballyforan, Co Roscommon today.

An elderly man and two children have died in separate accidents around the country.

THOUSANDS of protesters opposed to plans for the downgrading of local hospitals are expected to converge on Nenagh, Co Tipperary, today.